Once an ardent supporter of the ANC, the Economic Freedom Fighters’ leader began handling firearms at the age of 13
We asked political analysts Ongama Mtimka and Mcebisi Ndletyana how the Economic Freedom Fighters defied the odds and why it has flourished
The EFF president says he has grown — and matured — along with the country’s third-largest party
A decade has passed since Malema was frogmarched out of the ANC. Out in the cold he has, however, remained a constant thorn in the side of the party and a useful gun for hire in our political theatre
Julius Malema is all grown up since the days he was expelled from the ANC but Paddy Harper still feels like a rookie after almost four decades on the job
Ramaphosa’s dithering, as well as a failure by the country’s intelligence and police services, aided the two-week carnage
The chairperson of the state capture commission and acting chief justice said he had no bias in favour of the president or any against his predecessor, but proceeded on the basis of evidence, without thought as to whether it could deny him the post of chief justice
The ruling party was unbanned 32 years ago on 2 February, but few ANC leaders can be feeling festive today
The Gauteng judge president’s words turned prophetic as he came under sustained political attack in his interview for the post of chief justice
The former Transnet group chief executive was one of the key architects of the capture and looting of the state-owned entity
The Zondo commission found evidence to suggest that Transnet was the primary site of state capture in financial terms.
The second state capture report shows how the arms company went from a R35-billion order book to begging the treasury for cash to stay afloat
The Zondo commission’s second report deals with the capture of Transnet through the Gupta racketeering enterprise
Dali Mpofu, arguing for the former president’s leave to appeal the high court’s refusal to remove prosecutor Billy Downer from his arms deal trial, hinted at a constitutional court challenge
ANC MP Mervyn Dirks has asked Busisiwe Mkhwebane to investigate Ramaphosa’s ‘failure to report corruption’
The brilliance of Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga’s mind and his transformative judgments can prove salutary at a time when the judiciary is under populist attack, his peers hope.
In 2016, Prinsloo sounded the alarm about the hazardous condition of the Blue Train and free trips being offered to friends of Transnet executives, including the Gupta family and Duduzane Zuma.
The tourism minister will have to jockey with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Zweli Mkhize for a presidential nomination.
The former president is asking the Pretoria high court to declare Zondo’s tenure as chairman of the commission of inquiry unlawful and to order Ramaphosa to appoint a new chair
Lindiwe Sisulu and other power and prosperity seekers in the ANC had the authority to improve the lives of ‘the people’, but didn’t
The minister in the presidency said there was a need for the government to do more to protect the judiciary
Themba Maseko, the former chief government spokesman said it would be a very long wait for legislative reform, as urged by the Zondo report, to see the light of day if state capture culprits still in the state did not face the music
The attack by Minister Lindiwe Sisulu on judges as enslaved to a colonial mentally placed the acting head of the judiciary in an impossible position, fraught with politics, legal scholars say
Concerns abound about the parliament fire, with insiders saying the timing was suspicious and the truth may never come out, while intelligence and security clusters are worried.
Most South Africans believe the report into state capture must be followed up to ensure that those responsible for rampant corruption are held accountable
The whistleblower fears that Zondo’s recommendation that the firm’s contracts with public entities be scrutinised will be stonewalled – and implicates Telkom.
The ruling party was not only asleep on the job while former president Jacob Zuma colluded with state capture agents, but also lined its coffers with the proceeds of crime, the acting chief justice finds
Incompetence, corruption and cronyism are part of many liberation organisations for complex reasons, but such organisational culture tends to persist into government.
Zandile Mafe took a nap outside parliament. Does that make him a
sleeper agent?
The acting chief justice called on law enforcement agencies to take steps to prevent further such attacks on court facilities.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo found that the subversion of the procurement system and the decimation of previously sound parastatals happened on the watch of a ruling party that not only dropped the ball but pocketed the proceeds
The unnecessary restructuring of the once proud revenue service was an attempt to halt its pursuit of people involved in state capture